THERE ARE TWO HOBBY SHOPS IN SAUDI ARABIA. ONE IN JEDDAH AND THE OTHER ONE IN ALKHOBAR WHERE I RESIDE. BOTH ARE OWNED BY THE SAME PERSON. THERE SELL TOYS AS WELL AND YOU CAN FIND SOME TOYS MANUFACTURED FROM 70's BARBIES TO EARLY 80's HE-MAN AND STAR WARS. WELL I FOUND AN ODD KIT MADE BY THE COLLABORATION OF REVELL AND ITALERI, ACTUALLY THE SPELLING ON THE BOX WAS "ITALAEREI". THIS WAS OF A soviet antitank gun, 76.2mm ZIS. 3 M42
1/35 scale # H2112. THIS ARTILERRY PEICE HAS THREE FIGURES, HELPER LOADER AND SPOTTER. THE PLASTIC IS EXCELLENT AND THE DETAIL IS GREAT. THIS IS AN OLD KIT JUDGING BY THE BOX'S DISCOLORATION AND CONDITION. AND IT IS THE ONLY PEICE THEY HAD. I BOUGHT IT IMMEDIATELY. I WONDER IF ANYBODY HAS ENCOUNTERED A KIT LIKE THIS BEFORE?

BARBIES?!? In SAUDI ARABIA?!?!?!? I thought there was a Fatwa on The Insolent-Adulterous-Immoral-Unclean-Western-Decadent-Capitalist Barbie? Hmmm... strange... Barbie being sold in a Muslim country that practices (and espouses) the Wahhabi* version of Islam. That, indeed, is an odd find. Does it come with a burka?

* - In case some of you don't know, the Taliban practices the Wahhabi version of Islam. Same goes for Osama bin Ladin. So, Barbie in a Wahhabi country? The guy selling it is courting disaster with the Religion Police (unless he's got oodles of cash to bribe the authorities).

Osama plays with dollies?! What the?!

Kinda reminds me of "Sergeant Weenie Arms and his Pencil-necked sissy Dolls"..

Barbie, meet Razanne:



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He does get problems with those but now it's a bit more liberal here. They are still reluctant to bring in 1/16th scale figures though. That's why I am having some flown in.